Back in May last year GOV.UK Notify sent its first messages as part of our invite-only beta release. Now - after 9 months, 3.5 million messages, 32 live services, 850 code deployments, and 500 hours of user research — we’re making Notify available to all of central government.

GOV.UK Notify is now a reality with 4 services using the product to send messages to users. And another 70 service teams across central government have contacted the Notify team to say they’d like to use this product to talk to their users.

The government notifications platform will be called GOV.UK Notify. This post explains what the platform will offer service teams in departments and agencies, and how developers will be able to get easy access to the platform to integrate GOV.UK Notify into their services.

About Government as a Platform

This blog is about our work with departments and agencies to build common components that can be shared and reused to make it easy for service teams across government to design, assemble and build services.